Brad Sherman actually said...

"A negative security assurance, with all due respect to the Executive Branch of Government, is pretty meaningless without it being a treaty."

"We should be putting these companies to a fundamental choice between doing business in Iran and doing business in the United States."

"What measures and secondary sanctions can we adopt here in Congress to convince our European and Asian friends to withhold these non-lethal exports, particularly spare parts?"

"What if we were to go further and say no company in the world could get a Federal or state contract if they sold anything to Iran other than food or medicine?"